Teunis (Tönis) Komes (Comes, Commerts), owner of the Gatherhof at Rheydt, in 1591 signed the Concept of Cologne as a representative of the Mennonite congregation at München-Gladbach, Rheinland, Germany. He was an ancestor of the Jacob Gottschalk who emigrated to Pennsylvania and was a preacher in the church in Germantown. The family name of Kernes, spelled in different ways: Kommes, Komms, Kohmsen, was also found in West Prussia before 1700. They may have been related to the Rhineland branch of this family.